I Can't Wait Chords
by John Hiatt
I Can't Wait by John Hiatt is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, C#m, E, G and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
A D A D
C#m D A D
A D
Tonight I'm howling at a foreign moon
A D
Might as well be a junkie's spoon
A D
For all the light it's given me
A D
Sinking in my misery
A D
It's been forty days and forty nights
A D
Darling since I held you tight
A D
I walk the desert of my dreams
A D
I got to get out of here before I scream
D E
Too much take off, too much landing
D E
No such love, no understanding
A D
I can't wait baby till you're by my side
A D
I can't wait baby though you know I've tried
A D
I can't wait baby just one more ride
A D
I can't wait till you're by my side
A D
Could you crawl through your telephone
A D
Girl I'm so tired of being alone
A D
I'm talking to walls in my hotel room
A D
Around the world in a sonic boom
D E
Some close calls and some near misses
D E
All I want is your sweet soul kisses
Chorus
Instrumental Bridge
D - G - A
Hey Baby!
D - A - D
G - C - E
A D
For all the noise on my hometown street
A D
Little children playing at my feet
A D
Well I would give my soul to be (I would give my soul to be)
A D
Back in your arms in Tennessee
D E
Too much take off, too much landing
D E
No such love, no understanding
A D
I can't wait baby till you're by my side
A D
I can't wait though you know I've tried
A D
I can't wait just one more ride
A D
I can't wait, can't wait
A D
Baby till you're by my side
A D
I can't wait baby till you’re by my side
A D
I can't wait though you know I've tried
A D
I can't wait just one more ride
A D
I can't wait till you're by my side
D - A - G - C - E - D